Not to be super corny on main, but the last time it snowed in Wellington was shortly after I met my partner. This time, 15yrs later: we recently got married and our babies were born a week ago 🥰
Victoria 🏳️🌈
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@femme_podcast on twitter, in you're wondering if we were mutuals over there Ngā Puhi | Ngaati te Ata
I dont object to people being wealthy, owning a $10m holiday home I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs #nzpol
Baxtermack🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️@baxtermack.bsky.social · 11mo agoUn be-fucking-lievable . I'm truly gob-smacked, $8500, you complete and utter bastard.
don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed
Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 12mo agoWhen you see David Seymour hand-wringing about political violence today, don't forget he called an opposition MP "a menace to freedom" and she received so many threats afterwards that she was provided with an extra security detail share.google/oNArcLhdfgbM...
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The funniest thing about this was the guy from the Employers & Manufacturers Association on Morning Report saying they weren't focused on removing existing entitlements, and while sick leave entitlements have doubled, actual use has only risen from just under 5 to just over 6 days per year
David Cormack@davidcormack.bsky.social · last yr.the commitment to being a horrible government is almost admirable. does he not remember...covid?
Folks I just witnessed someone in a bar hitch down her skirt and hike up the sides of her thong...WHAT YEAR IS IT
On one hand I'd love to see Aucklanders gather to protest outside Destiny Church about their hateful shit. On the other hand those assholes are clearly just waiting for the opportunity to get into a fight. There's clearly many there who'd love nothing more.
Destiny Church know full well that they're terrorising a room full of children. They don't care. Can we finally start calling it what it is? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Pride and Rainbow event in Auckland disrupted by Destiny Church
Around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room in a library in West Auckland this afternoon, when a group linked to Destiny Church tried to drown out a Pride Festival Event.
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When whānau and tamariki are having to hide behind locked doors while a crowd tries to break them down you have to stop calling it a difference of opinion you shouldn't do anything about.
Two attacks, using force (people were injured at the library, "breaking through" police barricades here), against the queer community of Auckland in one day by Destiny. We are owed an explanation as to why there are thus far zero arrests. There may BE a good explanation, but if so we are owed it.
Paul Brislen@brislen.nz · 2y agoAuckland Rainbow Parade: Destiny Church members disrupt march, storm Ponsonby Rd This is the second Destiny church story today filled with violence and in which Tamaki gets several paragraphs to spout his venom. Do better Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
Me reading the unrelenting trauma of A Little Life: 😟😥🧐🙄😮💨😴 Me reading the unrelenting trauma of Manacled: 😥😩😭😱😍😭🫠🫣😭😭😭😭
Democracy dies in darkness. National are shoving Bill's through under urgency, limiting select committee input, and as we saw over the summer, limiting the opportunity for public submissions. They've also fired science advisors and not filled the PM's science advisor role. #nzpol
Govt smashes record for laws passed without select committee scrutiny
The Government has forced more legislation all the way through Parliament under urgency in its first 400 days than any since at least 1987.
newsroom.co.nz
The reveal that Auror provides police with direct access to their customer data without warrants or review procedures shows how supermarkets and big box retailers are leading a shift towards monitoring every customer as a potential criminal. theconversation.com/supermarket-...
knowledge is power. anti-intellectualism everywhere and always feeds the flames of fascism.
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2y agoHoman went on CNN to complain that ICE’s attempts to arrest Chicagoans has been hampered by the people’s knowledge of policy—largely because of the city’s “Know Your Rights” campaign. Fascists rely on your compliance. On your ignorance. They depend upon your fear. Disappoint them.
Absolutely no one should come to the US for the next four years if they can help it, for anything. Cons, weddings, vacations, etc. The danger is in the wild unpredictability of the federal government and getting in when federal agencies at our borders have been given the all clear for bigotry.
Foz Meadows@fozmeadows.bsky.social · 2y agoso hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?
A pox on canned food companies whose cans don't stack on top of one another.
homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a cup in front of a picture
Alt: Grandpa simpson waves angrily at a cloud
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The EO defines biological male and female by the size of the reproductive cell each produces. But the fetus is asexual at conception. Bipotential (sexually indeterminate) gonads start to form the 5th week after fertilization, and both male and female ducts form, regardless of X or Y chromosomes.
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2y agoThe Trump executive order against trans people defines "female" and "male" *at conception.* Not birth. This is fetal personhood language (in addition to being scientifically inaccurate). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I've seen some people bitching about the colour gradient in Wicked, comparing it to the technicolour of the original film. I haven't seen whether John Chu or anyone else involved has addressed it but the colour choice seems so obvious???
Overheard a colleague on a call: "Here's how it works - you're David's bitch is how it works." 👀👀
id say an easy way to identify a nazi salute is when the person routinely believes, does and says nazi shit in order to impress other nazis
Getting real tired of *certain people* whining to *me* about how they want to riot, why aren't we roiting, etc etc. And I get it, I do, we're all mad, and when it kicks off I'll be there. In the meantime, what tangible steps are you taking to protect the people who need/will need it most?
Me running errands before I eat lunch: maybe I'll stop for a sweet treat at Belen Me after resisting the sweet treat and eating the healthy lunch I planned: I am full
Partner throwing up on the Interislander while a PA recording describes the conditions in the straight as "less than ideal" 😂😂😂